Empyrean Ray is a single-target only finisher, but a good alternative to Flame Thrust for that fool that's trying to run away in PVP. I put in in the AOE finisher macro just for convenience but it's meant as an alternative single-target only finisher that does more damage than Flame Thrust (but does have a 1.5 sec cast time so it's more situational).

I used this a lot for 50+ leveling. I messed with leveling/solo builds that didn't rely on Bard (give me a stabby thing, please) or Tactician (fun soul, but also wanted a more "traditional" option) and this is almost exactly what I ended up with. Post-50 I put 3 points in Ruthless Stalker, gaining another teleport with the 24 points into RS, then the rest into NB. It is a great all-purpose build.

Just curious why you have 5 points in Planar Boost. Since your macro/rotation doesn't advise using combo point abilities after hitting 5, seems like that's 4 wasted points (since each point just increases the number of stacks)

Edit: Also.. your single target finisher macro won't work. You have two non-cooldown abilities so only one of those is going to fire.

planar boost adds a stack when you get the 5th combo point as well, not just using a builder after 5. And the single target macro is fine, the third ability is a ranged finisher which can be good for pvp or tagging another mob.

Just curious why you have 5 points in Planar Boost. Since your macro/rotation doesn't advise using combo point abilities after hitting 5, seems like that's 4 wasted points (since each point just increases the number of stacks)

Edit: Also.. your single target finisher macro won't work. You have two non-cooldown abilities so only one of those is going to fire.

Planar Boost triggers the buff when you get the 5th combo point, the buff does not go away when you use your combo points, hence the "stacks up to 5 times". It will keep boosting your damage every time you hit that 5th combo point.

As for the macro finishers, Blazing Strike is melee range only ability, so when the mob, player, etc. moves out of melee range, Flame Thrust will trigger instead.

Just tried this out on my rogue and I must say this works pretty well. I think the longest fight I had was around 15 seconds and that was just me not stealthing right and screwing up the rotation (yes, I can mess up mashing three buttons). Bravo for build, even the AoE element worked remarkably well. Thanks, now I don't know weather to play my rogue or my mage,

Planar Boost triggers the buff when you get the 5th combo point, the buff does not go away when you use your combo points, hence the "stacks up to 5 times". It will keep boosting your damage every time you hit that 5th combo point.

As for the macro finishers, Blazing Strike is melee range only ability, so when the mob, player, etc. moves out of melee range, Flame Thrust will trigger instead.

Ah, I see. Sorry then. Will give this a try tonight and see how it goes.

I've tried about a dozen popular leveling builds and this one is easily my favourite. It's fun, has decent mobility, pretty good damage ST and AoE, and my health doesn't drop by even 1% if I let 1 mob beat on me for 15 seconds! This should be every rogues go to leveling build.

Been looking for a good melee build for a while and this is great. Does exactly what it says on the tin, fast kills, no downtime and leaves my harbinger in the dust dps wise.
The only change I made was to take Empyrean Bolt out of the builder macro.
It starves my energy a fair bit more, but I didn't like my chara swapping from daggers to bow mid fight.
thats just a personal thing tho.

My only addition I found to be useful for longer AoE fights was to throw one Fiery Spike on your primary target before you use Flame Blitz. This one GCD gets you a DoT on all enemies affected by Flame Blitz, which can stack and do some really nice damage if the fight lasts longer than a few seconds.

It's not at all a game changer, but I found that for one "fire and forget" GCD it's really effective.

love this for pvp too!

This build owns in pvp and is quite fun! im consistantly top 3 kills and dmg in wf's @53. Very solid for pvp and ive been doing well soloing 1-2 higher levels with the st setup! Solid pve aoe as well! My new go-to build! /excitement!